Concert notes: Shatner tickets on sale this morning

Larger-than-life William Shatner performs his one-man show, 'Shatner's World,' in New York in February. (New York Times photo)

The show is titled “Shatner’s World: We Just Live In It,” and that seems apt. From “Star Trek” to “T.J. Hooker” to “Boston Legal” to Priceline TV ads to a spoken-word interpretation of “Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds” to a “Saturday Night Live” skit berating Trekkers (“Get a life!”), William Shatner has been a baby-boomer pop-culture icon.

Stories from that vast, often bizarre career make up “Shatner’s World,” a one-man show that makes its San Antonio debut Jan. 9 in the Majestic Theatre. Tickets, $32-$113, go on sale at noon today through Ticketmaster.

“There are terrible secrets revealed in this one-man show, horrible things that only by coming to the theater will you be able to understand,” Shatner notes in the press release announcing the show. ” It is filled with gossip and innuendo and dirty laundry, mostly other people’s. It’s called entertainment.”

Sounds good. Juicy, even.

Shatner, who turned 81 in March, brought the show to Broadway and then took it on the road this spring after trying it out in Australia. The show stopped in Houston in March.

“I talk about death and I talk about love and horses and motorcycles,” he told the Associated Press in February. “I talk about comedy and I talk about some of the things people want to hear about, ‘Star Trek’ and all.”

In an interview before his Houston show in March, Houston Chronicle writer Andrew Dansby told Shatner, “You’re sitting on 199 credits as an actor on your iMDB page.”

“199?,” Shatner replied. “Hmmm. If you say so. I haven’t counted. I guess I need to look into how to get to 201.”